Word: 1940s
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...even more grotesque immorality founded thousands of American fortunes in these same years--Horatio Alger and Benjamin Franklin notwithstanding. Halberstam goes on (and on) to maintain that the Chandlers "in effect invented" Southern California, just like their political hired-gun/reporter Kyle Palmer invented Richard Nixon in the late 1940s, just like the Times's protective coverage of Nixon made him the paranoid schizo he turned...
...other hand, Hardwick makes full use of the legendary self-destructiveness of Billie Holiday. There is the suggestion of a 1940s acquaintanceship with the great blues singer. Hardwick, the prudent observer, is fascinated by the abandon with which Holiday burned talent and life. There is a tendency to mythologize her excesses and her presence: "The lascivious gardenias, worn like a large, white, beautiful ear, the heavy laugh, marvelous teeth, and the splendid head, archaic, as if washed up from the Aegean...
Thousands of TB patients sought out mountain air and were put on regimens of nutritious food. Chest X rays helped spot infected patches of lung. Finally, with the development of such drugs as streptomycin and isoniazid in the 1940s and 1950s, tuberculosis seemed on the way to being vanquished...
...Joey" departs from the stock formula for gangster shows. It's a strikingly bold and saucy trollop of a play, one that must have titillated or even shocked 1940s audiences. Lorenz Hart's lyrics do not play coy. Vera warbles of Joey in the classic song, "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered," that...
...years Henry Ford II has been the driving force behind the Ford Motor Co. Since he took control of the then ailing corporation as a young man in the 1940s, he has devoted his prodigious energies to helping build Ford into a worldwide auto empire with 495,000 employees and annual sales of $43 billion. Now, at 61, as he prepares to step aside as chief executive, he is finding himself embroiled in a series of bitter legal skirmishes...